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The recent observation of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CE{\nu}NS) with neutrinos from pion decay at rest ({\pi}-DAR) sources by the COHERENT Collaboration has raised interest in this process in the search for new physics.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-30 R. R. Rossi , G. Sanchez Garcia , M. Tórtola

The design and performance of the new Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer (CNCS) at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge are described. CNCS is a direct geometry inelastic time-of-flight spectrometer, designed to cover essentially the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2015-05-30 G. Ehlers , A. Podlesnyak , J. L. Niedziela , E. B. Iverson

Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a Standard Model process that, although predicted for decades, has only been detected recently by the COHERENT collaboration. Now that CE$\nu$NS has been discovered, it provides a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-14 Julien Billard , Joseph Johnston , Bradley J. Kavanagh

The European Spallation Source (ESS), currently under construction in Sweden, will provide an intense pulsed neutrino flux allowing for high-statistics measurements of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE{\nu}NS) with advanced…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-03 Sabya Sachi Chatterjee , Stéphane Lavignac , O. G. Miranda , G. Sanchez Garcia

The CENNS-10 experiment of the COHERENT collaboration has recently reported the first detection of coherent-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) in liquid Argon with more than $3 \sigma$ significance. In this work, we exploit the new…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-10 O. G. Miranda , D. K. Papoulias , G. Sanchez Garcia , O. Sanders , M. Tórtola , J. W. F. Valle

We present a new experimental method for measuring the process of Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering (CENNS). This method uses a detector situated transverse to a high energy neutrino beam production target. This detector would be…

The wavelengths and energies of thermal and cold neutrons are ideally matched to the length and energy scales in the materials that underpin technologies of the present and future: ranging from semiconductors to magnetic devices, composites…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. E. Mason , T. A. Gabriel , R. K. Crawford , K. W. Herwig , F. Klose , J. F. Ankner

We propose the use of isotopically highly enriched detectors for the precise study of coherent-elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS). CEvNS has been measured for the first time in CsI and recently confirmed with a liquid argon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-10 A. Galindo-Uribarri , O. G. Miranda , G. Sanchez Garcia

The first eight years of operation of the Cold Neutron Chopper Spectrometer (CNCS) at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge is being reviewed. The instrument has been part of the facility user program since 2009, and more than 250…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2016-10-12 Georg Ehlers , Andrey A. Podlesnyak , Alexander I. Kolesnikov

This work presents the first comprehensive joint analysis of all available Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) data on germanium: those observed at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) by the COHERENT collaboration and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , G. Co' , F. Dordei , C. Giunti

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) provides a unique probe for neutrino properties Beyond the Standard Model (BSM) physics. REactor neutrino LIquid xenon Coherent Scattering experiment (RELICS), a proposed reactor neutrino…

The upcoming European Spallation Source (ESS) will soon provide the most intense neutrino source in the world. We propose the Search for Hidden Neutrinos at the ESS (SHiNESS) experiment, highlighting its unique opportunities to search for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-28 Stefano Roberto Soleti , Pilar Coloma , Juan Jose Gómez Cadenas , Anatael Cabrera

There exists a need to address and resolve the growing evidence for short-baseline neutrino oscillations and the possible existence of sterile neutrinos. Such non-standard particles require a mass of $\sim 1$ eV/c$^2$, far above the mass…

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering was first experimentally established five years ago by the COHERENT experiment using neutrinos from the spallation neutron source at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The first evidence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-12 Pilar Coloma , Ivan Esteban , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , Leire Larizgoitia , Francesc Monrabal , Sergio Palomares-Ruiz

The detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) opens new possibilities for neutrino physics within and beyond the Standard Model. Following the initial discovery in 2017, several experimental attempts have emerged…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-10 Thomas Rink

We demonstrate that measurements of Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering (CE$\nu$NS) at spallation sources are valuable probes of muon-decay physics. Using COHERENT data we derive the first direct constraint on the Michel parameters…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-07 Víctor Bresó-Pla , Sergio Cruz-Alzaga , Martín González-Alonso , Suraj Prakash

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) can be used to determine the neutron part of nuclear form factors, unlocking intrinsic properties of nuclear structure. In contrast with other such methods, CEvNS is free from both strong…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-20 Emilio Ciuffoli , Jarah Evslin , Qiang Fu , Jian Tang

Release of COHERENT collaboration data from the first detection of coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CEvNS) on argon. This release corresponds with the results of "Analysis A" published in Akimov et al., arXiv:2003.10630…

Coherent elastic neutrino-nucleus scattering (CE$\nu$NS) is a key process for probing Standard Model and beyond the Standard Model (BSM) properties. Following its first detection by the COHERENT Collaboration, recent reactor-based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-21 M. Atzori Corona , M. Cadeddu , N. Cargioli , F. Dordei , C. Giunti